On Aaron Klein’s weekend show on New York City’s WABC radio, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe accused the Obama administration of buying up ammunition at an unprecedented level to bypass the Second Amendment so gun-owners “can’t even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much.”

“Let’s make sure that your audience out there is aware, Aaron, that our president, Obama, has been doing everything he could to stop the private ownership of guns in America,” Inhofe said. “You know that, everyone knows that. And yet he’s been voted down in a big way by a large majority. And so my feeling is that he’s doing this to buy up [ammunition] so that we can’t buy: Honest, law-abiding citizens here in the United States, like my son, can’t even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much.”

Inhofe explained to Klein he is working to introduce the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) bill that will limit “non-defense, armed federal agencies to pre-Obama levels of ammunition.”

…“I believe it’s intentional,” Inhofe said. “Now we had someone testify the other day the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, has the ‘right’ – this is a bureaucrat that said this – they have the ‘right’ to buy as much as they want, and they’re planning to buy 750 million rounds. Well, that is more than three times the amount that our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation. So, it’s just another effort to restrict gun activity and ownership. We have in this country the Second Amendment, that preserves the right to keep and bear arms, and the president doesn’t believe in that.”

Inhofe was skeptical of theory that the ammo buy-up was an effort by DHS to seize power from the state, as some have suggested, but did say it was unprecedented and shouldn’t be allowed.

“This has never happened in this country before,” he added. “We’ve never had government trying to take that much control at the expense of the law-abiding citizens. And we’re not going to let it happen.”

Whatever the motivations of the DHS may be for buying so much ammo, there’s no legitimate reason anyone seems to be able to come up with for why it needs “three times the amount that our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation.” So, with that in mind, limiting DHS ammo buys does seem appropriate. If anything, Congress should be much more aggressive about challenging agencies that are wasting our money. So, good for Inhofe for getting on point on this issue and the sooner we have a vote on his Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) bill, the better.

Don’t know how such a scheme could possibly work. Even trying to buy up all the ammo in the world would have to eventually fail, as the companies producing the ammunition just rev-up their production to satisfy the market demand.

Perhaps there is some sort of artificial contstraint on the market that I am not aware of? Maybe there is a law/regulation that CAPS the production of ammo? Don’t know how it could work without that.

The fiirst thing DHS needs to explain why its specifically needs to use the most expensive kind of ammo (hollow point defensive rounds) for mere marksmanship and target practice when LOW COST ball and wad-cutter ammo is the accepted standard everywhere else? Deadly defensive style ammo is 2x-4x as expensive as target ammo. At most they need a box or so of he defensive ammo per officer to prove it chambers without jamming the gun and in the rare event they need to ever shoot in legitimate self defense. The 2nd thing DHS needs to explain is how it can stand up a new Environmental Justice Unit to harass small family farmers and self-sufficiency gardners under a ruse of environmental-justice when the toxic heavy-metals emissions from discharging their cache of 1.6 billion.40 SW hollow point ammo would release more lead into the atmosphere than the state of CA would emit in years of using pre-ban lead gasoline additives.

Let’s go the Barney Fife route and save everyone money. Give DHS each ONE bullet and if after a year let those officers who have not shot themselves in the foot or groin at their desks be given taser and billy clubs. Better yet – save a ton of money and disband the entire agency as redundant to FBI, ICE, Secret Service, ATF, Federal Marshalls, Border Patrol etc. ad nasaeum. We can’t afford all this big brother protection racket.